By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
Feeling tired, I was headed home after a long day at work.  On the subway platform, I waited and watched as all kinds of trains passed by–all except the one that I needed.  Even the garbage train honked noisily through the station.  My train was nowhere in sight. 
After enduring a seemingly unending [...]

By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
Author note:  I’m in the process of moving over the UM archives from our previous site to this new one.  Regrettably, because I switched platforms, this process is fairly labor intensive (i.e., lots of “cut and paste”).  While I’m keeping most of the posts true to their original publication date, occasionally I’ll [...]

By Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D.
Rush hour, changing trains
Like salmon migrating home –
No spawning on stairs
Recently, the NYC subway system has gone from bad to worse. Trains are coming less often, and moving less quickly. With your mindfulness practice, perhaps you’ve noticed these changes, too?
As a result, crowds of passengers are getting more plentiful and [...]

By Rob Handelman, Ph.D.
This blog entry took me a while to write, as my mother died a month or so ago. This is not about grief (for a nice paper on mindfulness and grief, click HERE), but how to be with such pain while having to function in our real, urban world.
When my mother died, I was [...]